First-ever sighting of water ‘snow line’ around young star

Artist impression of the water snowline around the young star V883 Orionis, as detected with ALMA. Credit: A. Angelich/almaobservatory.org/
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) facility in Chile have reported the first-ever sighting of water snow line around a young star.
A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers their first view of a water “snowline” in a protoplanetary disk – the transition point around the s